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| (...) I will second Kevin's suggestion of changing to ldview or ldglite. They produce excellent instruction pics and I think they look much better than MegaPOV with edge-lines for instructions. That said, I would strongly recommend backing up all (...) (18 years ago, 26-May-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: New Mecha: Trogladyte
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| Hi Jon. I'm sorry you felt that your mecha might be overlooked. Some weeks we get hit harder than most with work and life. As long as I'm here, every mecha gets a shot at the sidebar. I agree wholeheartedly with you choice as source parts. The (...) (18 years ago, 26-May-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Pakistani Truck
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| It's a Jingle Truck!!!I've seen waaay to many of thsoe. I think it needs more jingle, especially on the front end, and the parts need to be old and battered. Maybe a vignette wit hte driver pulled over and the engine apart on the shoulderr being (...) (18 years ago, 25-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Very Complex Early LEGO History
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| OK, I am going to insult 99% of all Adult Fans Of LEGO.... "99% of all AFOLs have no clue as to how complex 1950's and 1960's LEGO sets and parts really are!" OK, now I'll appologize.... Sorry! And now I'll explain.... :-D Anyone who has ever looked (...) (18 years ago, 25-Dec-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A quick LEGO History
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| 1970 was a very tumultuous year at TLG. A lot of bad things were in progress at the same time.... 1) the USA Samsonite license fiasco. 2) the death of Hanne Christiansen. 3) a new law passed by the Italian parliament. In October of 1969 on their way (...) (18 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A quick LEGO History
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| (...) So, out of curiosity, why is this usually called the starting date? I always hear it quoted that Lego started in 1932, but I'm not sure why people quote that rather than 1895 or 1916. From what I know (from 50 Years of Play book): 1895 - (...) (18 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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| (...) Prolly also worth explaining somewhere that the expression is compiled left-to-right and is therefore direction-sensitive. That is, -.loc. +.loc.us.ca is very different from +.loc.us.ca -.loc. The string expression is compiled into a code (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Who has the most Lego?
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| (...) I think you mean Mike Poindexter. Mike Stanley sells a lot of what he buys, I believe. My most recent estimate places my collection at 750K but I have essentially stopped buying large quantities. I have (just about??) all the LEGO I need at (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Bing Bang Boing this
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| YouTube has a 7 min mash of 70's era TOY commercials. (URL) how Im not seeing the Lego Ads' Chris leader of the free toy world One of the water toys was made by a company called Wham-O,(also makers of the Frisbee) Did you know that they also (...) (18 years ago, 24-May-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | On line LEGO building Instructions
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| Hi, You have certainly noticed that TLC offers free online PDF building instructions downloads. In fact, TLC has not, AFAIK, officially announced or publicized this. Until now, only old (more than 3 years old) BIs were available for donwloading, for (...) (19 years ago, 15-May-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.inst)
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| | STEF Refrigeraed car
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| Hi, You probably know that I'm not too much a MOCer. But finally, I've designed a refrigerated car (european style) I'm satisfied with. Maybe, you've seen the building instruction on (URL) Building Instruction Portal>. You will also find now a very (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: A quick LEGO History
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| The 1932 date is when toys were first produced. Prior to that, it's more Christiansen family business ventures. 1932 = startup of toys. 1949 = bought their first injection molding machine, and started making the Automatic Binding Bricks. The (...) (18 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | mini-review of Legoland
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| Hi, Ashley :-) and others: I went to Legoland CA the week before Christmas and I had a few observations to make. We were a party of 5: two old folks, two parents, and one 5-year-old kid. * Part of what got us to go when we did was Ashley's post (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: How do you guys do it?
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| (...) Dave, As someone who is slowly getting back into building, the biggest turning point in getting back on the horse was sorting my collection. It was less than 40k pieces at the time, and it took a while, but here are the benefits: - In "dustin' (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Skyscraper MOC: David Stott Building
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| (...) Hi Jim, This is simply spectacular. I've been watching the very promising progress shots on BS and I'm stunned at the end result. Absolutely brilliant! I love all your art deco stuff but I think this one is the best. I'd love to see some shots (...) (18 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory price list - Trains
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| (...) The prices are just plain odd and high. A pair of switches is 27.99, but one is 22.96? AND you need to buy in lots of ten? Straight track is 12.99 for a box of eight, but 19.99 for a lot of ten? I could buy one motor for 24.99 under your old (...) (18 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Mech Repair Facility
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| Greetings all, I finally finished the project I have been working on for three long months. It is a Star League era Mech Repair Facility from the Battletech Universe. My concept was to make a structure that had interchangeable repair gantries so (...) (18 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc) !
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| | the evolution of lego sorting
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| Here's a description of an evolution of lego collection sorting. It might be yours, at least in parts. It's certainly been mine. I might turn this into an essay some day, but for now it will have to begin life as a series of unsupported claims. If (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage) !!
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| | Re: INIZIO IO ..... + INVITO A CENA !!!
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| Mi collego anche io augurando a tutti un buon Natale e Buon fine anno con tanti tanti tanti sets Lego nuovi e..... interessanti Grazie a tutti per l'amicizia anche se solo via email, per i consigli ricevuti e per i bricks scambiati. Per tutti quelli (...) (18 years ago, 22-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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